seesaw
Example Sentences
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England came out on top of a seesawing contest at the Melbourne Cricket Ground played on a grassy bowler-friendly deck that made batting treacherous and was all over inside two days.
From Barron's
A pumped-up England dismissed Australia for 132 on another chaotic day at the fourth Ashes Test Saturday to leave themselves needing 175 to win a seesawing contest.
From Barron's
That has resulted in U.S. equity markets seesawing in recent days.
In the seesawing tedium of daily traffic, slow and fast, the e-motor silently and seamlessly supports the big V8 in those few hundred milliseconds it takes to spool up.
Also on Tuesday morning, new data from the Labor Department showed that hiring seesawed in October and November data showed that hiring gained by 64,000, with unemployment ticking up to 4.6%.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
